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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nadine White

‘Send you to Rwanda’ emerging as new racist slur on social media, public figures warn

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The UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has inspired fresh waves of racist and bigoted language on social media, public figures have warned.

London mayor Sadiq Khan, home secretary Priti Patel, Labour MP Diane Abbott and campaigner Femi Oluwole, among numerous others, have been targeted by online users suggesting that they should be removed from Britain and flown to the east African country.

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